Ride With GPS is now on Google+!
With an increasing effort to broaden our horizons and expand Ride With GPS we have now encorporated Google+ as our newest social media platform. We are going to strive to offer unique content on this platform as well as giveaways and member offerings.
We hope that you add Ride With GPS to your cirles!
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Something that we have been wanting to do for quite some time now is to hold Ride With GPS challenges for our members. We finally have the bandwidth to do so and we are pretty excited about it!
We weren't exactly sure what type to host first, but we settled on an obvious "let's see who can ride the most miles in one week" concept. And now we are on the eve of it's launch.
April Distance Challenge Details Sign Up!
When Saturday, April 14 - Friday, April 20
Details Starting this Saturday, get on your bike and use your GPS unit or phone to record as many miles as you can for the following week. We'll tally the results over the week to keep you motivated, and give out premium accounts to winners and honorable mentions!
We hope you participate and invite all your friends to participate too!
What's next? This is the first of many competitions. We want to give out cool prizes and help motivate everyone to push themselves and have fun. Let us know if you have any feedback!
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I want to first say how excited I am to be part of the Ride With GPS team! There is a lot of work to be done, and it's an exciting time to get to be part of Ride With GPS.
My goal is to maintain the same level of quality of work that Cullen and Zack have been able to provide up to now, and in order to do so we are currently outlining how we want to move forward. While we iron out the details, you can expect updates regarding:
But you can also expect some more light-hearted and cycling-related posts, too.
You can follow me on Twitter at @travcaldwell
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Ride With GPS has been growing rapidly this year, to the point we were able to hire our first employee! So, without further pleasantries we'd like you to meet Travis.
Travis has been an endurance athlete in one way or another for 10 years, and has been a competitive amature cyclist for the last 4. He lives in Boulder, CO and will be doing online and social media marketing, blog management as well as many other tasks. We are very excited about this big step for Ride With GPS. We need all the help we can get and Travis is a perfect fit.
You can get to know Travis by following him on Twitter at @travcaldwell
If you have any other questions about Travis, send us an email: info@ridewithgps.com
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No matter what type of cyclist you are, a competitive racer or recreational rider, you probably gauge your training using time spent on bike rather than distance. In order to accomodate the need to view activity based on time, we added the ability to view the Activity Center graphs by time. You now have three x-axis to choose from: Distance, Elevation Gain, and Time.
We really think that this adds a nice level of training analysis to the Activity Center.
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If you have any other questions about this new Activity Center feature, send us an email: info@ridewithgps.com
Along with updating our color scheme we also felt like it was time for our logo to grow up and reflect our core cycling market. Since we do not claim to be graphic designers and we think the concept of crowd sourcing is cool, we opted to try out 99designs. Setting up the initial competition with some clear objectives was the easy part. Picking from the 110 total designs proved to be much more difficult.
At first it was easy to pick the good from the bad. But, as the competition went into the late rounds it became really hard to pick between the designs. However, we pushed through the tough times and picked the winner!
We are really happy about and excited for our new logo. We feel like it's really helping make the site feel more professional. We hope you like it too!
The desinger who produced the winning logo was Corne. If you'd like to see more of Corne's work you can see the full 99desings profile here. Corne was really easy to work with and was always able to make changes quickly and correctly and we really enjoyed to colaborative process.
If you have any other questions about our new logo, send us an email: info@ridewithgps.com
With Spring here, we decided it was a great time to freshen up our site. After adding the new logo, we removed some of the darker, oppressive feeling colors from our pages.
Old Color Scheme (Profile Page):
Old Color Scheme (Footer):
New Color Scheme (Profile Page): One of the first things you'll notice we removed a the dark heavy green and black colors and replaced them with softer more inviting colors.
New Color Scheme (Footer): We also changed the footer concept and link colors.
We will soon be releasing a new front page featuring a warmer color scheme. One of our goals this year is to make the site more inviting for anyone who lands on it. Look forward to more improvements in the near future!
If you have any other questions about our color scheme change, send us an email: info@ridewithgps.com
You can now connect with people on Ride With GPS through our new Groups features. Groups will allow you to easily meet, coordinate, share, and compare rides, routes, and events with other group members. You can easily search for groups in your area. It is easy to create your own Ride With GPS Group!
To get started find the group you're looking for by selecting "Group" from the "Search" drop down menu, or click here to go to groups.
Next select the group you're wanting to join from the results:
Once you're on the Groups page you can join and check out what the group is up to:
Now that you are a member of the group it will display on your profile right below your photo:
Additionally, Group admins and members have the ability to: - Associate Routes - Easily Share Group - Coordinate Routes From One Spot - Upload Group Photos
If you have any other questions about using groups, send us an email: info@ridewithgps.com
You can now analyze your performance on a segment, compare it to other riders, and stage a virtual race! Check out this video walk through:
If you have any other questions about using segments, check out our help page here: Segments Help Page
We have just released the ability to define segments, which gives you an easy and fun way of analyzing multiple rides at once and see where you stand in your area on your favorite roads. Anyone can create segments and participate today. Our premium users can use segments privately, and create segments directly from laps recorded on a GPS unit.
Here is a video demonstrating how to create a segment:
And here is a video walking through all the details of the segment page:
If you have any other questions about using segments, check out our help page here: Segments Help Page